Never too old to learn something, like me learning that the town I grew up in was an actual poster-child "sundown" town, which explains the death threats, vandalism, racism, slurs, hang up calls, unwanted pizza and Chinese food deliveries, and bullying we got for being brown when we moved there in 1971. Sometimes you don't see the forest because the trees are in the way.
https://www.nprillinois.org/equity-justice/2018-11-15/why-is-deerfield-still-so-white
#WhiteSupremacy #SundownTowns
Why Is Deerfield (Still) So White?

Commentary: A North Shore suburban native reflects on the community's troubled racial history.In 1962, my parents adopted an infant girl who they named…

NPR Illinois
I knew there had been "restrictive covenants" and "deed restrictions" that helped real estate agents prevent minorities, especially black people, from buying property there, but had no idea about the depths of racist history. This is the history people like DeSantis don't want revealed. And they have done a great job.
https://www.amazon.com/Sundown-Towns-Hidden-Dimension-American/dp/0743294483/ref=cm_cr_srp_tb_product_top?ie=UTF8
#CRT #whitesupremacy #SundownTowns #Racism